Miles Ashley and Alistair Godbold

Engineering great decisions

Miles Ashley and Alistair Godbold look at a comprehensive approach to transforming infrastructure project productivity and sustainability through the Infrastructure Governance Code.

Philip Sydney

Gender diversity and board engagement

Philip Sydney provides an evidence-based review into male and female director’s engagement demonstrates what diversity can deliver in the boardroom.

Tara Cho and David Clarke

The importance of a WISP

Tara Cho and David Clarke argue that, while the Written Information Security Program has more relevance in the US than in other jurisdictions, there’s still good reason to introduce one even where it is not mandatory.

François Siegwart

Switzerland puts the emphasis on sustainability

François Siegwart looks at the revised Code of Best Practice for Corporate Governance in Switzerland which takes a holistic ESG approach.

Gavin Hayes

Building resilience for geopolitical disruption

With geopolitical risk now a board agenda item, Gavin Hayes argues that boards, internal audit, risk management and governance professionals need to prepare for continual disruption from geopolitical incidents.

Hanif Barma & Cosette Reczek

Time to rethink risk governance

Hanif Barma and Cosette Reczek challenge boards to really understand their organisation’s business model, its vulnerabilities and its breaking points; and ask how would it respond to evolving and emerging new risks?

John Britton

Early signs from the 2023 AGM season

John Britton looks at some of the key trends which appear to be emerging for the 2023 AGM season in the UK.

Susan Divers

Ethics & compliance programmes

Susan Divers explains how strong ethics and compliance programmes allow organisations to navigate upheaval and change.

Jenny Herrera

It's all about the people!

Jenny Herrera looks at how the business case for treating people responsibly and fairly and how the Good Business Charter Framework can help companies go from good to great.

Carl Sjostrom & Hans-Kristian Bryn

Risk & reward of culture and reputation

Carl Sjostrom and Hans-Kristian Bryn argue that culture and reputation are not adequately reflected in many organisations’ planning and decision-making.

John Harte

The evolving role of the Chair

John Harte looks at the role of the Chair and how it has evolved over the last few years

Daniele Vitale, Kiran Vasantham & Kevin O'Neill

Investors and the 2023 AGM Season

Daniele Vitale, Kiran Vasantham and Kevin O’Neill provide insights from Georgeson Global on what the 2023 AGM season is likely to bring from an investor’s perspective

Alex Olsansky Jr

Solving the compliance-data conundrum

Alex Olsansky Jr explains what the conundrum is, how to know where the conundrum’s pitfalls exist within an organisation and how to avoid those pitfalls by installing a smart management system powered by collaboration, dashboards and AI

Timothy Copnell

Governance and audit reform

Timothy Copnell considers two major reforms affecting audit in the UK which are currently under way

Dr Joseph Lee & Ms Mizuki Suma

The future of Japanese corporate governance

Dr Joseph Lee and Ms Mizuki Suma look at the future of Japanese corporate governance in relation to shareholder participation, sustainability, and technology

Hans-Kristian Bryn

Risk reflections

Hans-Kristain Bryn reflects on the way the risk landscape has changed since September 2022 and argues that this is not a time to think about risk management from compliance perspective.

Michelle Tessaro

Gender diversity beyond the headlines

Michelle Tessaro looks at the latest Cranfield Female FTSE Board Report which finds that the issue is not so much having women at board level as developing the executive pipeline.

David Archer & Chris Stamp

Board effectiveness reviews - Part 2

David Archer and Chris Stamp continue to look at maximising the value of external board effectiveness reviews.

Fiona Hathorn

Non-exec pay

Fiona Hathorn considers why share-pay for non-execs is at odds with the quality of governance.

Chris Stamp & Ian White

Board effectiveness reviews

Chris Stamp and Ian White look at maximising the value of external board effectiveness reviews.

Fiona Chalmers

Virtual/hybrid AGMs

Fiona Chalmers reports on research into the 2022 AGM season which shows that the share of AGMs held as hybrid has almost tripled but the format remains uncommon.

Deirdre Anderson

Minority ethnic representation on boards

Deirdre Anderson looks at new evidence which shows how the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has been a catalyst for boards to set goals around increasing minority ethnic representation at senior levels. But there are still questions over what’s happening in terms of action and accountability.

Domenic Brancati & Daniele Vitale

European 2022 AGM season review

Domenic Brancati and Daniele Vitale examine 2022 AGM season proxy voting outcomes across seven major European markets and find that shareholder dissent on remuneration grows and Say on Climate resolutions have tripled.

John Britton

The UK 2022 AGM season review

John Britton looks back at the UK’s 2022 AGM season and offers potential trends for 2023.

Hans-Kristian Bryn & Carl Sjostrom

Barriers to resilience and agility

Hans-Kristian Bryn and Carl Sjostrom look at how boards can avoid creating unintended barriers to resilience and agility in a disrupted world.

Dr Scarlett Brown

What metrics will our grandchildren judge us by?

Dr Scarlett Brown looks at how to bring together parts of governance that are still too often disparate: purpose and responsible business, strategy, reporting and communications, and impact.

Ian White

Doing less and achieving more

Ian White argues that it’s time for boards to take it easy and to say ‘No’ to things they want to do.

Domenic Brancati, Don Cassidy and Hannah Orowitz

Shareholder engagement - a year-round activity

Domenic Brancati, Don Cassidy and Hannah Orowitz discuss why engagement matters, stakeholders, team members, evaluation and post-engagement activities, which are equally important.

Roger Barker

A code of conduct for directors

Roger Barker introduces the IoD’s vision for board members from all UK entities to sign-up to a widely recognised code of conduct on a voluntary basis.

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